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On Sept. 20, 1913, rumors were running rampant around North Dakota that J. W. Kennedy, of Mandan, North Dakota, had invented just such a machine. A news clipping about J.W. Kennedy and his perpetual ...

Perhaps the most persistent nonsense in physics: the perpetual motion machine. Bad ideas come and go in physics. But there’s one bit of nonsense that is perhaps more persistent than all others: the ...

Advanced motion systems are turning machines into coordinated, adaptable platforms. Catch all the highlights from Motion Systems Takeover Week in one place.

Editors note: This story has been updated to properly credit the concept of the gigan to the poet Ruth Ellen Kocher. Eliot White sees poetry in the impossible, beauty in failure and the infinite in ...

At the turn of the 20th century, the quest for a perpetual motion machine took hold of public imagination. A number of Hoosiers were among those captivated by the idea of creating a perpetual motion ...